Danzig – Mother

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  General Comment:This song addresses the futility of censorship, and criticizes parents' insecurities and ultimate inability to censor things from their children; eventually they will grow up and everything they tried to hide from them will be undone.
  
  The song may also be about parents being overprotective with dating, and holding their children back by not allowing them to date someone a few years older, in fear that something that's inevitable anyway may happen.
  
  This song is not about religion in any way... I can only imagine that those that perceive this song in such a way perceive EVERY song in that way, and just hate religion in general. So they see anti-religion themes in literally EVERYTHING.

  Flag duckypwnson December 30, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:Although I know this song is about censorship and stuff, I would also like to think it's about an older brother who's moved out and who's parents won't let him see his younger siblings because of things he's said to his..."Mother".

  Flagged tannerjdheard97on July 19, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:What the hell is wrong with you people? this song isn't about religion, it's about censorship and discrimination of the Metal genre and all the people who likes it. By pinning this song as "anti-christian" you're proving that the stereotype hasn't changed much since '88.

  Flag fenixraiseron June 26, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:Additional Note: I'm thinking where "feel" is in the lyrics should actually be "fear", as much Organized religion is about fear of one's God. It sounds like what he is singing to me.

  Flag MontanaGraceon May 15, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:Um...It took me a couple days to figure this out, lyrics rehashing in my head. The song is actually about religion, types you may or may not know about, focusing on the dualities we have...or should have. I know of his readings and ideas or I would have NEVER figured this out. The song really makes him a baddie *smiles-not a bad thing* if you don't understand the reasoning.
  
  The Mother being a goddess(sometimes attributed to Lillith, Eve's predecessor whose history was removed from the bible by Hebrew Scolars),the her, and the "Father" a male god, associated with organized religion (I am thinking the wears that upside down cross as an in your face to organized religions.) When he talks about fighting with "father", it is because Christianity has been so bloody, and Danzig is well educated in history, and most likely well versed in related religious theology, so that is the butting head remark, he has a lot of knowledge. Besides banging heads sounds good LOL!
  He also talks about the duality or Yin/Yang of nature...the Mother and Father splitting the day as the Mother is the moon, and the father is the sun, dark and light respectively. This is also be the meaning of showing the daughter "his world", at night, meaning he would show her a different religious path.
  In the first 2 stanzas, talking to the mother, I think its a way of saying a lot of what he writes about is not necessarily relevant to what one could think about in these lyrics, perhaps also not to confuse paganism (or those who worship the mother) with the devil, in future writings as the "Devil" is purely a Christian player. You cannot believe in the devil if you do not believe in God, right? And that those who worship "Mother" also need to take heed in the duality of nature: light/dark, god/ goddess, yin/yang etc. A lot of pagans worship a Goddess only, then there is the theory of "God reated and the mother nurtures. Albeit, there is much rage in this song towards the "Father" believers, usu. "Organized religions".
  All of a sudden the song is not so profane. I can understand why he was so upset with the censors!
  I just really heard this song for the first time 3/2012. Glenn's lyrics are deep. Now go read "Mother" again :D

  Flag MontanaGraceon May 15, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:Danzig recently appeared as a guest on That Metal Show and stated that this song is about the PMRC.
  

  Flag Ryuk88on February 04, 2011   Link

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  My Opinion:I loved this song since i heard on WMMR (for all losers and n00bs who dont know this station: 93.3 FM) i bought every Danzig cd i could find and now id anyone changes a cd in my room they die. joking

  Flag Gingkaon January 10, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:The song is all about the PMRC. The Parents Music Resource Center is a committee that formed in 1985 by a bored, sexless wife of an ex presidential candidate. This candidate was better qualified as a whore and a sniveling baby. "I want a recount, he cries" after his loss.
  Al Gore's wife, Tipper Gore and 3 other Washington wives put this committee together with the sole purpose of censorship of rock music. Eventually some of that energy was directed towards Rap and Hip Hop.
  I got this from Wikipedia. This will verify that "Mother" is about the PMRC. For comical purposes I have also included Metallica reaction to the PMRC. Plus
  
  Danzig's 1988 song "Mother" scored a top 40 hit as the most famous song about[7] the PMRC labeling and its inherent problems. This is still one of the only songs about[7] Tipper Gore and the PMRC to reach a wide audience.
  
  As an early parody of the PMRC "explicit lyrics" warning labels, many prints of Metallica's 1986 release of their album Master Of Puppets sported a sticker on the front in the shape of a stop-sign saying:
  "THE ONLY TRACK YOU PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO PLAY IS "DAMAGE, INC." DUE TO THE MULTIPLE USE OF THE INFAMOUS "F" WORD. OTHERWISE, THERE AREN'T ANY "SHITS," "FUCKS," "PISSES," "CUNTS," "MOTHERFUCKERS," OR "COCKSUCKERS" ANYWHERE ON THIS RECORD"
  
  
  I think that damien666danzig and unseenpunk came closest to the answer. With out the PMRC this song would have never been.
  
  I hope this helps.

  Flag HeavenIs1982on August 28, 2010   Link

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    Danzig wrote this song 5 years before it hit the charts, so that would be about 1983.
    PMRC was founded in 1985. I think he took a stance against Gore BECAUSE of this song and others like it. Please look for my recent posts and you will understand why he is so mad about it. This song does not mean what it sounds like.

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    I love this part of your comment: "I got this from Wikipedia, this will verify...."
    
    Wikipedia can't verify shit.

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  My Interpretation:Not going to agree with the parents. Willing to fight, not going to back down.

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  Song Meaning:This song is an attack on the PMRC, the Parents Music Resource Center. This is a group of adults that was shocked by some of the messages within music with which they didn't agree. They decided that it would be best to censor the music that they didn't like. In this way they were like an overprotective mother who shields her child from anything deemed slightly suggestive. This song is Danzig's attack on them.

  Flag RadkeMaidenon April 15, 2010   Link

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